Flashback

Going back through some older photographs this afternoon and came across this picture of Tallahassee Police Lieutenant (retired) Sid Keller and his wife. This photo was taken in December of 2002. Sid and his wife were both 93 years young at the time and I wish I rememebered how many years they had been married but I know it was near 70 because I did a photobook for them on their 70th and this picture was included. Sid was the first motorcycle officer in the Tallahassee Police Department and was hired because he owned a motorcycle and knew how to ride one. He had been driver for Rainey Cawthown delivering fuel oil and gasoline prior to becoming a police officer. On this day the entire motorcycle unit when down to the shores of the Ochlocknee River in Wakulla County to visit with Sid and his wife. We took them out for lunch at the Oaks Restaurant and shared stories of TPD and days gone by. It was a good day. Sid passed away a few years back but before he died he had driven around the United States going through every state in the lower 48 that touches the Atlantic Ocean, Canada, Pacific Ocean, Mexico, and the Gulf of Mexico THREE times on a motorcycle with his wife riding on the back. Good times.